The Day Of The Doctor To Be Simulcast In At Least 75 Countries

And the amazing announcement is... The Day of the Doctor is to be broadcast simultaneously in atleast 75 different countries in six different continents!!

BBC Worldwide have also announced that the 75-minute special will be shown in various cinemas in the UK and in various other countries.

CEO of BBC Worldwide Tim Davie comments: “Few TV shows can still lay claim to being appointment viewing but Doctor Who takes this to another level. In its 50^th Anniversary year we wanted to create a truly international event for Doctor Who fans in as many countries as possible and the simultaneous broadcast and cinema screening of the special across so many countries will make for a fitting birthday tribute to our Time Lord.”

Showrunner and executive producer Steven Moffat adds: “The Doctor has always been a time traveller - now he's travelling time zones. On the 23rd of November, it won't be the bad guys conquering the Earth - everywhere it will be The Day of the Doctor!”

Countries and channels:
Europe
Germany (Fox), Finland (YLE), Poland (BBC Entertainment), Russia (Karousel and NKS)

North America
USA (BBC America), Canada (Space)

Latin America (on BBC Entertainment and BBC HD)
Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Ecuador, Guatemala,  Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela

Africa (on BBC Entertainment)
Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde Islands, Central African Republic, Chad,  Congo, Cote d'Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sao Tome & Principe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, South Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania & Zanzibar, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Australia (ABC)

Asia (on BBC Entertainment)
Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand


This news is sure to please some people and disappoint some people. Discuss it right here on our Doctor Who forum!

Derek Landy To Write Tenth Doctor E-short

BBC Worldwide have revealed that Skulduggery Pleasant author Derek Landy is to write October's short e-book.

The e-short will be called The Mystery of the Haunted Cottage and will feature David Tennant's Tenth Doctor and Freema Agyeman's Martha Jones, and here's the synopsis:

"When the TARDIS lands on a planet that looks identical to Earth, the Tenth Doctor and Martha are amazed to find it packed with fictional characters from her childhood. But who has the power to create an entire world out of books and why? The Doctor and Martha must solve the mystery before their story ends!"

The Mystery of the Haunted Cottage is available to pre-order on Amazon and the iBookstore at the price of £1.99.

Today's Doctor Who DVD Releases

After a long wait, Tom Baker story Terror of the Zygons is finally available on DVD, and so are all six Monster Collection sets.

Monster Collection set contents:
Davros - Genesis of the Daleks, The Stolen Earth & Journey's End
Daleks - The Daleks & Asylum of the Daleks
The Master - Terror of the Autons & The End of Time
Cybermen - The Tomb of the Cybermen, Rise of the Cybermen & The Age of Steel
Silurians - Doctor Who & the Silurians, The Hungry Earth & Cold Blood
Sontarans - The Time Warrior, The Sontaran Stratagem & The Poison Sky



Buy Terror of the Zygons from Amazon here or from the BBC Shop here.
Buy the Monster Collection sets from Amazon here or from the BBC Shop here.

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Classic Doctor Who DVDs From Just £5.49!

The BBC Shop is currently selling classic Doctor Who DVDs starting at the cheap price of £5.49! The stories available at this price include fan-favourites such as Genesis of the Daleks, The Pyramids of Mars and Inferno.

You can take a quick look at (and maybe buy) all the £5.49 DVDs here.

Nick's Picks Big Finish Sale

Nicholas Briggs has chosen nine Doctor Who audios, along with one Sherlock Holmes audio, to go on sale for the weekend.

The Doctor Who audios on sale are:
The Condemned (Sixth Doctor)
The Girl Who Never Was (Eighth Doctor)
The Bride of Peladon (Fifth Doctor)
Max Warp (Eighth Doctor)
Grand Theft Cosmos (Eighth Doctor)
Lucie Miller (Eighth Doctor)
To the Death (Eighth Doctor)
Son of the Dragon (Fifth Doctor)
The Rocket Men (First Doctor Companion Chronicle with Ian Chesterton)
The Adventure of the Perfidous Mariner (non-Doctor Who; Sherlock Holmes)

They are priced at £5 each (CD and download) or £45 for the lot. You can buy them here. Sale ends Monday.

Classic Stories Confirmed For The Doctors Revisited In The UK

The Radio Times have confirmed the UK air dates for the mini-series The Doctor's Revisited, and have further confirmed that a featured story will be aired for each Doctor right after the short documentaries.

Schedule:

12th October: The Doctors Revisited: William Hartnell + The Aztecs
13th October: The Doctors Revisited: Patrick Troughton + The Tomb of the Cybermen
19th October: The Doctors Revisited: Jon Pertwee + Spearhead from Space
20th October: The Doctors Revisited: Tom Baker + The Pyramids of Mars
26th October: The Doctors Revisited: Peter Davison + Earthshock
27th October: The Doctors Revisited: Colin Baker + Vengeance on Varos
2nd November: The Doctors Revisited: Sylvester McCoy + Battlefield
3rd November: The Doctors Revisited: Paul McGann + Doctor Who: The Movie
9th November: The Doctors Revisited: Christopher Eccleston + Bad Wolf / Parting of the Ways
10th November: The Doctors Revisited: David Tennant + The Stolen Earth / Journey's End
16th November: The Doctors Revisited: Matt Smith + The Impossible Astronaught / Day of the Moon

The documentaries all start on Watch at 2PM and the episodes start at 2:30PM on the various dates.

The Light At The End - Official Video

Big Finish have uploaded this video to advertise their 50th anniversary special audio drama The Light at the End, starring Tom Baker, Peter Davison, Colin Baker, Sylvester McCoy, Paul McGann and various companions. The more expensive collector's edition release features Companion Chronicle The Revenants starring William Russell.

You can pre-order The Light at the End from BigFinish.com here or from Amazon UK here.

Doctor Who: Afterlife & Antidote To Oblivion Covers

The covers for upcoming Big Finish audios Afterlife and Antidote to Oblivion have been revealed. Afterlife is written by Matt Fitton, directed by Ken Bentley and stars Sylvester McCoy as the Seventh Doctor, Sophie Aldred as Ace, Philip Olivier as Hex and Amy Pemberton as Sally Morgan while Antidote to Oblivion is written by Philip Martin, directed by Nicholas Briggs and stars Colin Baker as the Sixth Doctor, Lisa Greenwood as Flip and Nabil Shaban as fan-favourite monster Sil.

Afterlife synopsis:

"Hex is dead. And a distraught Ace holds the Doctor responsible.

She forces him to take a trip to 21st century Liverpool to break the news to Hex's beloved nan and, to pay tribute to Thomas Hector Schofield, the pair seek out his family and friends to tell them of his adventures. They're helped by Private Sally Morgan, who has her own peace to find.

The Doctor, Ace and Sally must each face the fallout of the loss of their friend - to commemorate him, remember him, and finally to move on. But can they do it together, or will their attempts drive them apart?"

Antidote To Oblivion synopsis:

"Future Britain is bankrupt, its corporate owners facing financial ruin. Fortunately, the Universal Monetary Fund, and its slimy representative Sil, are willing to give its President a multi-billion credit bail-out... but terms and conditions apply, and Sil's proposed austerity measures go far beyond mere benefit cuts.

Responding to a distress call, the Doctor and his companion Flip land in a London whose pacified population has been driven largely underground. But the horrors down there in the dark are as nothing to the horrors that await them at ConCorp HQ, where a young biochemist in Sil's employ is working on a permanent solution to the nation's terminal unprofitability.

Because in the final account, Sil plans to make a killing..."

You can pre-order Afterlife for £12.99 download or £14.99 CD here. (Released December 2013)
You can pre-order Antidote to Oblivion for £12.99 download or £14.99 CD here. (Released January 2014)

Doctor Who: The Tenth Planet & The Moonbase DVD Release Dates

The BBC have revealed that upcoming DVD release The Tenth Planet will be released on 14th October 2013 instead of 18th November as a result of the delay on The Moonbase, which will now be released on 20th January 2014. Both of these stories feature the Cybermen, are partly missing and will feature two exclusive animated episodes.

Source: DoctorWhoNews.net

The Light At The End Cover (Standard Edition)

Big Finish have revealed the cover for the standard release of their 50th anniversary audio drama The Light at the End. The story will be written and directed by Nicholas Briggs and will star Tom Baker, Peter Davison, Colin Baker, Sylvester McCoy and Paul McGann.

Synopsis:

"November 23rd 1963 proves to be a significant day in the lives of all eight Doctors…
It's the day that Bob Dovie's life is ripped apart…
It's also a day that sets in motion a catastrophic chain of events which forces the first eight incarnations of the Doctor to fight for their very existence. As a mysterious, insidious chaos unfolds within the TARDIS, the barriers of time break apart…
From suburban England through war-torn alien landscapes and into a deadly, artificial dimension, all these Doctors and their companions must struggle against the power of an unfathomable, alien technology.
From the very beginning, it is clear that the Master is somehow involved. By the end, for the Doctors, there may only be darkness."

The Light at the End will be released in November and you can pre-order any of the three versions here.

Big Finish Weekend Klein Sale

To celebrate the release of Daleks Among Us, Big Finish have put three previous stories on special offer for the weekend, all starring Sylvester McCoy as the Seventh Doctor and Tracey Childs as Elizabeth Klein. The stories on offer are A Thousand Tiny Wings, Survival of the Fittest (includes Klein's Story) and The Architects of History.

They are currently priced at £9 each or £25 for all three. For a little extra money, you can add Colditz into the bundle as well.

Click here to view and buy the audios on sale.

The Doctors Revisited To Air In The UK

It has been revealed that BBC America mini-series The Doctors Revisited will be airing on the UKTV subscription channel Watch as part of the celebrations for Doctor Who's 50th anniversary.

The mini-series will begin airing in the second week of October.

Source: Radio Times

UPDATE: It will start on the 12th October at 2PM.

P.S: Don't forget about our brand new forum, Peladon.info!

The Dark Planet & Upstairs Are Out Now!

Following the releases of Daleks Among Us and 1963: Fanfare for the Common Men, Big Finish have released Lost Story The Dark Planet written by Brian Hayles and adapted by Matt Fitton along with Companion Chronicle Upstairs written Mat Coward.

The Dark Planet Synopsis:

"Somewhere far back in the early days of the universe the TARDIS lands on a world lit by a dying sun. Missing from the Doctor's star maps and dotted with strange crystalline statues, it is a world ripe for exploration. But it is also a world of destruction.
Venturing out onto its surface, the time travellers find themselves drawn into an age-old conflict between the two species residing on the planet - people of Light and Shadow. Proving a catalyst for the escalation of the conflict, the Doctor and his friends need either to create a peace or to pick a side.
Because in times of war, nothing is ever black and white."

Upstairs Synopsis:

"When the TARDIS lands in a dilapidated attic, the Doctor, Vicki and Steven discover they are on Earth, in London… in Number 10 Downing Street.
However alien forces are at play here, affecting the very fabric of the building… and adjusting the very essence of history itself."

You can buy The Dark Planet for £14.99 download or £16.99 CD here.
You can buy Upstairs for £7.99 download or £8.99 CD here.

Doctor Who Magazine Issue 465 Cover

The cover for the 465th issue of Doctor Who Magazine has been revealed and here it is!

This issue features interviews with classic Doctors Tom Baker, Peter Davison, Colin Baker, Sylvester McCoy and Paul McGann about upcoming 50th anniversary audio The Light at the End written by Nicholas Briggs.

It will be available from 19th September 2013 at the RRP of £4.75.

Peter Davison To Appear In Day Of The Doctor?

In an interview with ITV's Daybreak, Peter Davison revealed that he has his own copy of the script for Doctor Who's 50th anniversary special The Day of the Doctor:

"I have got a copy of the script which has got my name embossed across it. So it's top secret, but there's other stuff, lots of other things that are going on that people should keep their eye open for around the 50th anniversary special!"

Last month, the Radio Times started a rumour that one of the classic Doctors is set to appear in the 50th anniversary special so all this makes me think he will be involved, especially after the little protest outside the BBC's Television Centre.

Of course, nothing is definite just yet - for all we know, his script could just be a gift from Steven Moffat, or maybe it's just because of his relation to David Tennant so don't get your hopes up too much!

Day Of The Doctor Wallpapers

No logo, 4x3 version

No logo, 16x9 version

Text and logos, 4x3 version

Text and logos, 16x9 version

The BBC have kindly provided some wallpaper versions of yesterday's posters for the 50th anniversary special The Day of the Doctor and here they are! To view the full size images, just click on these medium versions. Once you've clicked on them, just right click the image and set it as your wallpaper!

At the current time, they have not released any mobile versions.

Two New Big Finish Audios Out Now

Seventh Doctor audio Daleks Among Us written by Alan Barnes and Fifth Doctor audio 1963: Fanfare for the Common Men written by Eddie Robson are both available now!

Daleks Among Us Synopsis:

"AZIMUTH DEPARTMENT OF RE-EDUCATION
REMINDER: TO ALL CITIZENS
There are no Daleks on Azimuth. There have never been Daleks on Azimuth.
Twenty years ago, the Daleks did not invade Azimuth. There was no war. There were no death camps. A man named ‘the Doctor’ did not help liberate Azimuth.
There are no such things as Daleks. They do not exist. There are no Daleks among us.
UPDATE: TO ALL CITIZENS
A strange blue box has not appeared in Monument Plaza. Off-worlders named ‘the Doctor’, ‘Elizabeth Klein’ and ‘Will Arrowsmith’ are not at large in the city. For your own safety, should you not see any of the above, report at once to the Department of Re-education, Azimuth Central.
NEVER REMEMBER"

Fanfare for the Common Men Synopsis:

"If you remember the Sixties, they say, then you can’t have been there.
The Doctor remembers the Sixties. That’s why he’s taking Nyssa on a trip back to November 1963. Back to where it all began. Back to the birth of the biggest band in the history of British music. Back to see those cheeky lads from Liverpool...
Mark, James and Korky. The Common Men. The boys who made the Sixties swing with songs like Oh, Won’t You Please Love Me?, Just Count To Three and Who Is That Man.
The Doctor remembers the Sixties. And there’s something very wrong with the Sixties, if the Beatles no longer exist…"

You can buy Daleks Among Us for £12.99 download or £14.99 CD here.
You can buy 1963: Fanfare for the Common Men for £12.99 download or £14.99 CD here.
Companion Chronicle Upstairs starring Maureen O'Brien and Peter Purves will be released later this month.

Midnight Doctor Who Reveal - Details

From BBC One's Facebook page:

Now we know this post is quite wordy but we wanted to let you know about ALL of the other things happening across the BBC to mark our very own #DoctorWho's 50th anniversary in November - and there's a lot - so here goes...

ON #BBCTWO:
- In a special one-off programme, Professor Brian Cox will try to answer the classic questions raised by the Doctor – can you really travel in time? Does extra-terrestrial life exist in our galaxy? And how do you build something as fantastical as the TARDIS?

-The Culture Show will present ‘Me, You and Doctor Who’ with lifelong fan Matthew Sweet exploring the cultural significance of the BBC’s longest running TV drama, arguing that it’s one of the most important cultural artefacts of modern Britain.

- BBC Two will then wrap up its coverage with the previously announced ‘An Adventure in Space and Time’ written by Mark Gatiss

ON BBC Three:
-'Doctor Who: Monsters and Villains Weekend’ will countdown to the top Doctor Who monster as voted for by you.

- 'Doctor Who: The Ultimate Guide’ will introduce those less familiar to the show to a wealth of archive material and act as a guide to all things Who.

- We also have one further exciting commission to be announced later this year which will see the celebrations finish with a bang.

ON #BBCFOUR:
- Audiences will be introduce audiences to the first Doctor, William Hartnell, with a special re-run of the first ever story, which marked the start of 50 years of history. The four episodes are being shown in a restored format, not previously broadcast in the UK.

There will also be programmes across #CBBC including two live #BluePeter specials.

ON BBC Radio 1:
- A documentary will look at 'Time Lord Rock (TROCK)' as a genre of music inspired by the Doctor and his journeys through space and time.

ON BBC Radio 2
- 'Who is the Doctor' will look at the lasting appeal of Doctor Who and ask how much of its continued success can be attributed to its basic formula.

- In ‘The Blagger’s Guide to Doctor Who’, David Quantick will give the iconic Doctor the Blagger’s treatment. He’ll be finding out the answers to questions such as why do Americans think Tom Baker is still Doctor Who? How many Doctors have there really been? Were the Daleks really named after an encyclopaedia?

- Finally, Graham Norton will be broadcasting his weekly Radio 2 show live (Saturday 23 November, 10am) from the Doctor Who Celebration in London. 

BBC To Reveal Something At Midnight (UK Time)

At midnight tonight we'll be revealing our plans to take over TV & radio to mark #DoctorWho's 50th anniversary. The countdown starts here...
— BBC One (@BBCOne) September 10, 2013

In one hour and ten minutes, @BBCOne will be revealing their plans to take over TV and radio to mark the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who. According to Blogtor Who, there will be a promotional poster for the 50th anniversary special featuring David Tennant.

Some or most of this news may be what the BBC announced earlier, but we'll keep you updated anyway!